Thanks to the actions of Beth Chatelain of Zeroed In Legal Solutions LLC (https://zeroedinlegalsolutions.com/) and Gun Owners of America (https://www.gunowners.org/), we will be able to resume shipping and receiving non-transfer handgun shipments in the U.S. Mail once the proposed rule posted at the link below is finalized. The rule finalization may take a few months due to the speedy sloth-like movements of our federal betters. In the meantime, we can ship non-transfer handgun shipments via UPS Next Day Air, which will average $350 per handgun, give or take $100 depending on weight, dimensions, and distance from Alaska.
Revised Mailing Standards for Firearms—a proposed rule by the Postal Service.
Comments are encouraged and must be submitted by May 4, 2025.
SUMMARY:
The Postal Service is proposing to amend Publication 52, Hazardous, Restricted, and Perishable Mail (Publication 52), to conform with the opinion of the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel regarding the constitutionality of Section 1715 of title 18 U.S. Code, which prohibits the mailing of concealable firearms.
ADDRESSES:
Mail or deliver written comments to the Director, Product Classification, U.S. Postal Service, 475 L’Enfant Plaza SW, Room 4446, Washington, DC 20260-5015. If sending comments by email, include the name and address of the commenter and send to PCFederalRegister@usps.gov, with a subject line of “Shipping Firearms.” Faxed comments will not be accepted.
https://zeroedinlegalsolutions.com/ for legal council in Firearms Law, ATF Compliance, and Import/Export Guidance. Beth Chatelain, former ATF attorney, is a hard-working, diligent, go-getter. I highly recommend Zeroed In Legal Solutions LLC.
If not already a member, please consider joining Gun Owners of America.
IMPORTANT: DO NOT USE FEDEX. All FedEx packages will be refused. Call us for options before shipping.
If you are interested in becoming one of our Preferred Dealer/Shippers for non-transfer gun shipping for customers shipping their own firearms between our licensed addresses, please contact us. 907-251-1216 or email guns@wolfhawkshipping.com.
For a copy of our FFL, please email a PDF or jpeg copy of your FFL and we will return send a copy of ours.
For customers shipping their own guns via private carrier or for dealers handling private shipments, the labels MUST be correct. EXAMPLE LABEL. Please put the customer’s mobile phone number on the package.
A tourist or someone moving to Alaska cannot receive a transferred handgun until they establish residency. We rarely handle transfers; we’re too busy in the summer with shipping and receiving personally owned firearms.
Non-transfer firearms shipments do not log into the A&D book and only qualify as non-transfer when the customer is not selling or giving away their firearm.
A package addressed to a customer cannot be opened by the c/o FFL, but only the c/o FFL can receive the package, meaning the customer can’t go to the PO and retrieve their package to avoid the receiving fee. The FFL can hand over the package without opening it, but we have the customer open their package, and we log the firearm data on their receipt since we charge for each firearm. This prevents dishonesty and creates a paper trail we have never needed.
On Temporary Hold: USPS Flat Rate Priority is the fastest and most economical method for shipping handguns to Tok, Alaska. Adding Adult Signature is advisable—our Tok PO postmaster thinks it is a regulation, but I have not seen this in the statutes since 2011. Adding Adult Signature will keep our postmaster from having a hairball event.
We do not accept FedEx in Tok as they are extremely unreliable in our rural community; they lost a firearm package and once gave a firearm package to an individual whose name was not on the label. UPS is okay, but their policy requires Next Day Air, which runs over $300 per handgun and can take a week to get to us.
Incorrect labels will be refused.
All labels need to be created as follows:
From: John Doe
C/O ‘FFL Dealer’s Name’
123 Scattergun Rd.
Blastemville, Co 98765
To: John Doe
C/O Wolfhawk Shipping
PO Box 1004
Tok, Alaska 99780
(Customer’s mobile #)